series/Big Giant Swords

New show on the discovery channel. Kind of exciting really to see BFS the series still kind of smarting from Blade Brothers and it\'s kind of neat that I saw one of his youtube video\'s for Cloud\'s Buster Sword then later bam he\'s on tv.

anyone else watching?

I think the show is great.

I do like that Saturdays they have the Blademaker version of the episode that aired on Tuesday.

Cool

can't say I've watched the Blademaker episodes I guess I'll have to give them a chance.

So, anybody else think it's worthy of a trope page?

Maybe I know of atleast two tropes with the series.

The obvious is BFS

I think Made of Iron could be one because Irish Mike gets hurt and seems to shrug it off. He's been on fire and in one episode mentioned being shock ed multiple times by using his plasma cutter in the rain.

edited 1st Feb '15 7:02:28 AM by Halberdier17

I've seen a couple of episodes. Rather amusing to watch a guy slice a BOAT in half.

Strangely enough, I understand the dilemma they had with the quick-rust job on "Rahab." I was trying to do something like that myself on an emblem-image for the cover of my Kindle book. What I wound up doing is sculpting my image out of Sculpey, painting it to be rust-like, and "rusting" it up with ground up rust scraped from found objects and pumelled in a mortar and pestle. Thanks to that show, now I know how to overnight rust on actual metal should I need to!

Is there a trope for "and it's got to be done in a week"? because that seems to be a must for such reality shows

anyway tropes

• Zeus Almighty: The Zeus a big giant sword that resembles a big giant bow, for the series/Storm Chasers naturally, hooked up to a transformer for impressive sparks; the side project a giant chakram that turned into a giant shuriken.
  • Shock and Awe, Deadly Disc, Rings of Death, Improbable Weapon User, Fuuma Shuriken, Science Hero (maybe they wanted it to show off in schools inspiring others to do science), Awesome, but Impractical (kind of the theme of the show, plus a giant lighting rod does not extend your life span if going into a storm), Gentleman Snarker (being in a real world leads to World of Snark but Irish Mike is very gentlemanly about it).
• The Dragon Slayer: a dragon slaying BFS that shoots fire; side project Erik's pride and joy raise.
  • Fire-Breathing Weapon, Swiss-Army Weapon (both when you think about it), Super Wrist-Gadget and/or Swiss-Army Appendage, Dragon with an Agenda (not literally Ambition Is Evil but kind of toned down for real life)
• The Beast from Below: a local commission for a nautically themed BFS and a post apocalyptic folding sword.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story (went through a lot to make little more than a eye-catch, awesome tho it be natch), Butterfly Knife (sword sized), Police Brutality (the fictional post apocalyptic police apparently made folding swords in a factory for crowd control), Must Make Amends (like the gauntlet thing before it one of mike's team members goofs but to no real consequences), Awesomeness Is Volatile (Irish Mike sometimes has a fiery battle aura), No Mere Windmill (kind of the whole point of the silly videos is showing that no that is not a prop), Homemade Inventions (played strait and subverted the folding sword was made much easier by repurposing a Mundane Solution but it had to look big budget industrial)
• The Junkyard Crasher: Irish Mike wishes his daughter to know that girlhood doesn't stop with princess fantasies which also involves donating a BFS to a female Olympic weightlifter blessingly the side project is a giant axe made out of scrap.
  • Contrived Coincidence (a donated project and a low cost found materials project, conspiracy says eye!), Stout Strength and/or Brawn Hilda (ymmv on Sarah Robles attractiveness but she is one of the strongest humans female or otherwise on this planet, also she makes a BFS look small), An Axe To Grind (Irish Mike isn't apposed to doing non swords as long as they are big and giant), Redemption Quest (Ameri Mike's Fetch Quest according to Irish Mike), Manipulative Bastard (Irish Mike tries)

I'm sure I've missed some but this seems to be a start

edited 8th Feb '15 7:55:02 PM by GiantSpaceChinchilla